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This page is primarily **advertising and humor shorts** rather than political cartoons. The content reflects early 20th-century American commercial and social concerns. **Key advertisements:** - Diamonds/watches/jewelry - Cheona Evans Ale (marketed as "non-intoxicating" and nourishing) - A "Liquid Pistol" weapon for self-defense - Patent attorney services - Paper warehouse **The humor section "Passing the Mustard"** contains brief jokes on various topics: - Post-impressionism (mocking the art movement as pretentious) - An editor refusing to pay fair rates for writing - Military discipline (soldiers taught not to quarrel with civilians) - Marriage and domestic life **War-related content** appears in the "Help this sick soldier" Red Cross appeal, referencing tuberculosis among soldiers—a genuine WWI-era public health crisis. The page reflects commercial America during wartime, mixing consumer goods advertising with light humor and patriotic charitable appeals. No specific political figures or major events are caricatured.

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NON-INTOXICATING No Government License Requir As full of nourishment as an egg Is of meat— besides being full of p' ure Up to date Grocers, Drugsists and Dealers C.JH. EVANS & SONS, Established 1786, HUDSON, N. Y. Copy This Sketch plat Saubities for YOU. Nate you The Landon School :<, 1488 SCHOFIELD BUILDING, CLEVELAND, Wizard Repeating LIQUID PISTOL Will stop the most vicious dog (or man) without permanent injui Pertectiy sate to carry without danger of leak: Pires and rechar erdor or postage stamoe Parker’ Stcaras Co 296. Shelled Ave.. Dept. E. Brooklye, N.Y. HENRY LINDENMEYR & SONS PAPER WAREHOUSE Nos, 32, 34 and 36 Bleecker Street Branch 2 Clinton Street, Newark, N.J. KINDS OF PAPER MADE TO ORDER uu WANTED—AN IDEA! WHO CAN THINK OF SOME simple thing to patent? Protect your ideas, they may bring you wealth. Write for “Needed Inventions” and “How to Get Your Patent and Your Money.” Randolph & Co. Patent Attorneys, Dept. 129. Washington. D. C. | Passing the Mustard | His Job—* What is Bill doing now?” “He's a post-impressionist.”” “You don’t tell me. What's that?” “He has a job branding numbers on tele- phone poles.”—Mountain States Monitor. Logic—Editor—Well, young woman, if the story suits me, I'll pay you $20 for it. Young lady jor (persuasively)—Oh, come now. Buy it without reading and I'll let you have it for $15.—New York Globe. He Did—Visitor (in public gardens, in- terested in botany)—Do you happen to know to what family that plant belongs? Old gardener—I happens to know it don’t belong to no family. That plant belongs to the park.— Boston Globe. No Slacker—Mrs. Pardee (looking up from newspaper)—Here’s an account of an Englishwoman who has sent four husbands to the front and lost them all. Pardee—Does the account say the lady has resumed recruiting?—Chicago Herald. Well, Go On!—Ske—If you could have only one wish what would it be? He—It would be that—that—that—oh, if T only dared to tell you what it would be? She—Well, go on. Why do you suppose I brought up the wishing subject?—New Haven Journal-Courier. The Lesson—“ If a civilian should make insulting remarks in a public house,” said the officer, ‘and endeavor to quarrel, the well- conducted soldier should drink his beer and gO av Later on the men were again asked as to whether they understood him or not. “Now, Private Feeler, what would you do if you were in a hotel and a civilian tried to quarrel with you?” “T should drink his beer, sir, and ‘ook it,” replied the recruit.— Manchester Guardian Because—She—-Why did the land agent speak of the property as a parcel? He—Because it is tied up, 1 suppose.— Boston Transcript. The Supposition—Veus!—My wife used to play the banjo beautifully. Crimsonbeak—Now she picks on you, I suppose.—Yonkers Statesman. Not Art—‘I thought you had given up burnt-wood art, dearie.”” “erdinand, how can you be so heartless! This is a pie!—Kansas City Journal. Precaution—Major—Why have you put that cloth over his head? Private Mike O'Flanagan (harassed by restive horse)—So as he won't know he’s being groomed, sorr.””—Punch. Some Grit— son has some grit in him, I can tell you,” said a father. “Been eating war bread, I suppos Liverpool Post. Help this sick soldier He is one of thousands who have broken down with Tuberculosis in our Army or have been refused admission to the Army because of Tuberculosis. War always increases Tuberculosis. Red Cross Christmas Seals are sold in your community to protect you and your family irom Tuberculosis and to o provide proper care for your soldier boys who break down with this disease. You must buy three times as many this year. Put Red Cross Seals on all your holiday mail and packages. Buy a ‘and resell some to your. friends who might other wise neglect it Xmas Seals Mineral Water Subscribe to the % Red Cross # EAB ANKER be siseete 3A thie big pretension, Tremont comicboosare